pails
- plural of pail.
Example Sentences
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Schools hold mock water rationing exercises where water taps are shut off and students collect water in pails.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024
“Since the mid-19th century, miners, factory workers, dock hands, and other laborers have used sturdy dinner pails to hold hard-boiled eggs, vegetables, meat, coffee, pie, and other hardy fare.”
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2024
The main message of the event is sustainability, with workshops on gardening and composting, where attendees can walk away with free compost kitchen pails as well as fruit and shade trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
She boils straw to kill any bacteria, then layers it with sawdust spawn in pails with holes drilled in them where the mushrooms will emerge.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
Tyrion set the pails of water on the ground, grateful for the halt.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
